On Oct 6, 9:57 pm, Koobee Wublee wrote:
On Oct 6, 9:50 pm, JanPB wrote:



Exactly. And this has always been the case, e.g. Newton didn't pull
calculus out of thin air,

Well, Newton and Leibniz independent did just pull calculus out of
thin air. Calculus was a quantum jump. shrug

Just like relativity. But it was based partially on what went on
before.

Maxwell didn't just write down his four equations, and so on.

Maxwell's original works were based on potentials that spread out into
several more equations. It was Heaviside who condensed and went
beyond Maxwell's works into these four equations known as Maxwell's
equations today.

He didn't get them out of nowhere.

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Jan Bielawski